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Online Auctions
Ockenfels, Axel; Reiley, David; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - 2021
The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
sold in 29 European, Asian, and North American markets via the Internet by Spain's second largest apparel manufacture … cross-country price variations of identical items purchased via the Internet by consumers who do not take advantage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139751
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Internet Retail Demand : Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition
Ellison, Glenn - 2014
Data on sales of memory modules are used to explore several aspects of e-retail demand. There is a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from online retailers. This suggests that there is substantial substitution between online...
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E-Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries
Goldmanis, Maris - 2012
While a fast-growing body of research has looked at how the advent and diffusion of e-commerce has affected prices, much less work has investigated e-commerce's impact on the number and type of producers operating in an industry. This paper theoretically and empirically takes up the question of...
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Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms : Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social Security Market
Duarte, Fabian - 2012
This paper brings new evidence from the privatized social security system in Mexico, offering insight into investment behavior and the efficacy of government "nudges" in the context of profit maximizing firms. We use administrative data from the social security system surrounding the government...
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Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transactions Costs
Abel, Andrew B. - 2010
Recurrent intervals of inattention to the stock market are optimal if consumers incur a utility cost to observe asset values. When consumers observe the value of their wealth, they decide whether to transfer funds between a transactions account from which consumption must be financed and an...
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Investor Inattention, Firm Reaction, and Friday Earnings Announcements
DellaVigna, Stefano; Pollet, Joshua Matthew - 2021
Do firms release news strategically in response to investor inattention? We consider news about earnings and analyze the response of returns to announcements on Friday and other weekdays. Friday announcements have less immediate and more delayed stock return response. The delayed response as a...
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The Economics of Internet Markets
Levin, Jonathan - 2014
The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid …-commerce, internet job matching and financial exchanges, and other internet platforms. I also discuss the empirical evidence on … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research …
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in Dns Resolution by Major Websites and Services
Bates, Samantha - 2018
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018
We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...
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